On 08/23/2014 09:24 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:09:36PM +0100, James Hogan wrote: >> On 30/07/14 17:00, James Hogan wrote: >>> Hi Stephen & MIPS people >>> >>> v3.16 is fast approaching and there are quite a few important MIPS >>> patches pending. Since Ralf appears to be unavailable at the moment I've >>> reviewed and applied some of those patches which are least controversial >>> to a fixes branch with the intention of sending a pull request to Ralf & >>> Linus so that one of them can hopefully merge it before the release. >> >> I sent you a pull request for these fixes prior to v3.16 but >> unfortunately they still missed the release, and only two of the patches >> were applied in the main v3.17 MIPS merge. >> >> What are you intentions for the remaining fixes from Markos & Aaro? > > Ralf, any comments? I think at least this fix is imporant, > because currently users can hang OCTEON systems simply by lauching > multiple readers of the proc file: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/mips.git/commit/?id=08a9c3c9afcf6e8975fc1c9a97e871e6a039c25a > > A. > Hi, I plan to send GregKH another set of fixes to backport to 3.16, and since this patch is now in mainline[1], I will include this one as well. [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=608308682addfdc7b8e2aee88f0e028331d88e4d -- markos
